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An Operator is a method of packaging, deploying and managing a Kubernetes application. A Kubernetes application is an application that is both deployed on Kubernetes and managed using the Kubernetes APIs and kubectl tooling. To be able to make the most of Kubernetes, you need a set of cohesive APIs to extend in order to service and manage your applications that run on Kubernetes. You can think of Operators as the runtime that manages this type of application on Kubernetes. http://coreos.com/operators The Operator Framework is an open source toolkit to manage Kubernetes native applications, called Operators, in an effective, automated, and scalable way. https://github.com/operator-framework

I'm a director of engineering at Red Hat, currently leading the Operator Framework teams. I previously managed teams at Mesosphere around Mesos and Kubernetes, and the SRE team at Cloudflare. Before that, I co-founded Dotcloud, the company that later pivoted into becoming Docker... Read More →